Counterinsurgency and Jungle Warfare School
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The Counterinsurgency and Jungle Warfare School, in Vairengte, Mizoram, India is a training institution of the Indian Army specializing in unconventional warfare, specially guerrilla warfare. Established in 1970, it is quickly developing a reputation as one of the premier counter-insurgency military training institutions in the world. The motto "fight a guerrilla like a guerrilla" has been its forte for years.
The original plans to setup a counterinsurgency unit to train soldiers came up following fighting with mizo militants in the 1960s. General Sam Manekshaw mooted the idea for such a training and it took shape in 1967. The crisis in neighbouring Bangladesh however prompted a temporary rethink as the academy trained the Mukti Bahini guerrillas to attack Pakistan Army strongholds. Operation Jackpot was one such naval operation undertaken by the rebels largely aided and planned by Indians that drove home the strength of this school. After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, it returned to its primary focus of counterinsurgency.
It has played host to visiting military units from the United States, Singapore, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.
The success of this school prompted another counterinsurgency training centre, the Kazirnaga special jungle warfare training school in North Eastern India.
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